October/November 2022 responses to the April 2022 post by Unix Sheikh:
<https://old.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/ydr0hj/-/>
Disclosure: I'm a moderator of /r/freebsd <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/>.
I do positively enjoy nearly everything that I read in the unixsheikh area. The "Don't use Reddit …" post was disagreeable, but didn't lessen my respect for him. I shared his post in /r/BSD, but never did him the courtesy of responding via email. Now might be the time.
I respect your opinion.
I never used r/freebsd and can't really tell how stuff looks there.
My general experience with reddit was bad.
I also agree with author that upvote/downvote system doesn't work.
Sometimes you can find posts that are not verified, but are upvoted because 'it fits' individual... facts doesn't matter to some people.
I don't want even mention biases about linux distros, or posts like '... why you use x, not "better"/"cool"/"such modern" y?' or worse 'use y, not x' - like a command 😂
To not being completely 'negative', ofc. you can find quality posts and replies. But some people are like mechanical parrot, and ... fanatical.
Sometimes good post can be 'downvoted to death'.
Don't judge me, i totally respect your view. Maybe i had too many bad experiences.
@sourcerer no judgement :-)
Maybe the best compliment I can pay to /r/freebsd participants: the community is almost entirely self-moderating, which makes formal moderation a breeze. It's a walk in the park.
Reddit does have its standard rules and redditquette, but /r/freebsd literally has no rules — https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/rules/ — and I never felt the need to make a set …
@grahamperrin @offtopic Thank you. And don't worry, i don't believe that every corner of reddit is the same.
And to be fair. I said that some people are fanatical, and i'm kinda too. (I silently want to push BlendIT as preferred place! 😈).
But now serious, on the other hand... popularity comes at price.
I'm sorry for offtopic but, reddit is still needed.
Take a look for example on youtube creators. When they start, they have small but very nice and passionate community. But when channel grows, popularity increase and suddenly you can meet all sorts of people... quality in discussions can decrease.
I think, sometimes popularity isn't good. And i hope i will always be 'average joe'.